Scheduled during Asia Week New York, Doyle’s Asian Works of Art auction on Monday, March 19 at 10am will present the arts of China, Japan and Southeast Asia from the Neolithic Period through the 20th century. Offerings include porcelain, pottery, jade, snuff bottles, scholar's objects, bronzes, screens, furniture and paintings.

The sale offers selection of fine Chinese porcelain, including a celadon glazed porcelain double gourd vase with the Qianlong Mark and of the Period (est. $12,000-18,000). During the Ming and Qing dynasties, vases of this form were prized, because the double gourd, or hulu, was widely viewed as auspicious. Double-gourd vases are also known as dajiping (vase of good fortune). This vase is remarkable for its exquisite luminous glaze, which accentuates the graceful curves of its profile

Some of the finest ceramics of the Song dynasty were made at Jingdezhen in north Jiangxi Province. Among these are the thinly potted vessels of fine stoneware with the very attractive translucent glaze of light blue, often referred to as qingbai or ('bluish-white') ware. The decoration of qingbai wares is characterized by quickly incised designs, with combs used to add detail or to structure the background. The sale offers a qingbai lobed dish with a distinguished provenance, having been exhibited at the Oriental Ceramic Society in London, as well as at Eskenazi Ltd., London (est. $6,000-8,000).

Other porcelains of note include a Kangxi Period flambé glazed porcelain bottle vase (est. $15,000 - $20,000) and a luminous white glazed porcelain bowl with the Yongzheng Mark and of the Period (est. $8,000 - $10,000). A pair of Late Ming Dynasty blue and white porcelain dishes are decorated with moonlit prunus trees below a band of Tibetan characters (est. $5,000-7,000).

The sale offers a group of masterful fan paintings, including a work Late Ming/Early Qing Dynasty work by Ch'i Fan depicting cherry blossoms (est. $10,000 - $15,000) and another by Tuan Chu dating to the Ming Dynasty, Cheng-Te Period (1506-1521) depicting figures in a mountainous landscape (est. $6,000-9,000).